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Guyana is considering a number of options to resolve the border controversy with Venezuela, with the aim of making a firm decision during next year, Foreign Affairs Minister, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett announced on Monday. Among the options being considered through the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon are judicial action and arbitration. She said the UN Good Officer Process has ...

Municipal workers in Anna Regina on Monday downed tools and refused to open the town’s market to protest the non-payment of salaries for December and other outstanding emoluments. The market was initially closed, but instructions were later given by top functionaries of the Regionh Three administration and the Interim Management Committee to open the facility to allow vendors to sell. ...

Thirty-four days after jumping from a blazing building in commercial Georgetown where his two daughters were burnt to death,  an elderly man died early Sunday morning of severe burns about his body. Mr. Hilrod Randolph Thomas,68, succumbed to injuries he sustained while fleeing a burning building on King and Robb Streets during the pre-dawn hours of Monday, November 17, 2014. ...

Chairman of A Partnership for National Unity (APNU), David Granger has dismissed suggestions that the opposition parliamentary coalition is weak because it has failed to pressure the government on the streets with intensified street protests. APNU’s second major constituent party, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), has repeatedly taken the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR)-dominated coalition to task for taking a ...

Guyana’s declared gold production and exports have each slumped by more than 20 percent, due to the fall in the international price for the yellow metal during the year, according to the Guyana Gold Board. Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh during his half-year report has already revised downward the country’s economic growth for this year from 5.6 percent to 4.6 ...

Guyanese could go to the polls around April or May next year, now that the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has cut short the current cycle of registration by one month, according to a commission source and a political leader. The elections management agency announced on Saturday that the 7th Cycle of Continuous Registration would be brought to an end on ...

Guyana’s Opposition Leader, David Granger has registered his displeasure at the way the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) has handled his request to intervene in his country’s political impasse. Mr. Granger had asked that Caricom leaders hold an emergency summit tot pressure President Donald Ramotar to lift the now more than one-month old suspension of Parliament.  The law-making body was prorogued ...

New U.S.-Cuba relationship could open Cuban markets to U.S. firms Washington, Dec 18 (EFE).- The agreement between the United States and Cuba to resume diplomatic relations, which were broken off in 1961, could open the door to the Cuban market to U.S. firms, which currently are banned from doing business there.Companies such as automobile manufacturer General Motors, agribusiness giant Cargill ...

Vatican City, Dec 17 (EFE).- Pope Francis was “deeply pleased” that the United States and Cuba have announced the normalization of diplomatic relations “in order to overcome, for the good of their peoples, the troubles that have marred their history,” Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said Wednesday. Lombardi released a statement minutes after U.S. President Barack Obama and his Cuban countepart, Raul Castro, ...

Washington, Dec 17 (EFE).- American contractor Alan Gross thanked U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday for securing his release from prison and expressed support for his administration’s decision to work toward restoring full diplomatic relations with Cuba. “Thank you, President Obama, for everything you have done today and leading up to today,” Gross, accompanied by his wife, Judy, said at a ...